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Marcus Aurelius

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MARCUS AURELIUS Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
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MARCUS AURELIUS Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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MARCUS AURELIUS No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing in nature is evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
MARCUS AURELIUS